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They Have Room to Spare for Those on Hospital Visits

By Linda Kriger

I first encountered Hosts for Hospitals last year when a volunteer for the group promoted the program at my synagogue, the Germantown Jewish Centre, in Philadelphia.Read More

Musing on Mother’s Day

By Linda Kriger

Mother’s Day is bittersweet. During my childhood, I would get insanely excited about finding just the right gift and buying the most gushing card. As an angst-ridden adult, I dreaded the day and balked at sending a card to my estranged mother. It seemed too hypocritical to send one of those loving messages to someone with whom all communication had broken down.Read More

Getting Past the Past

By Linda Kriger

Linda Kriger discusses the challenges and triumphs of making a blended family into a unified family. Learn how she gets her eldest step-daughter to look her in the eye, in this personal essay.Read More

Blessing of the Sun: A Teachable Moment

By Linda Kriger

Once a generation, every 28 years, Jews recite the Blessing of the Sun, the same prayer that is said upon seeing majestic mountains, seas, rivers and deserts: “Blessed are you, our God, King of the Universe, who effects the work of creation.” This is the moment that Jewish tradition says the sun returns to the original spot in the cosmos as when it was created on the fourth day.Read More

Spiritual Path

By Linda Kriger

My husband’s first gift when we began dating was a slim volume of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s classic work “The Sabbath.” It was his way of saying, “Welcome to my world.”Read More


 

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